Nano to Perform at Anisong World Matsuri at Anime


Nano to Perform at Anisong World Matsuri at Anime 




The organizers of the Anime NYC convention announced on Thursday that singer nano will also perform at the Anisong World Matsuri event. She will join the acts performing on Friday, November 16. nano is a New York City native and sings songs in both English and Japanese. She has performed theme songs for Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova, Btooom!, Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA, Magical Girl Raising Project, Magical Warfare, and more. Anime NYC will be held at the Javits Center from November 16-18, and Anisong World Matsuri will take place on November 16 and 17. As previously announced, Luna Haruna, TRUE, and Konomi Suzuki are performing on November 16 (beginning at 7:00 p.m.). Morning Musume。'18, Shoko Nakagawa, Hironobu Kageyama, and Hiroshi Kitadani are performing on November 17 (beginning at 5:00 p.m.). Tickets for the November 16 performances will go on sale for Anime NYC Mega Ticket holders on August 27 and for regular ticket holders on August 28. Tickets for the November 17 performances will go on sale for Anime NYC Mega Ticket holders on August 29 and for regular ticket holders on August 30. General ticket sales begin on September 3. All sales begin on their respective days at 1:00 p.m. EDT. No Anime NYC badge is required to attend. The Anisong World Matsuri YouTube channel began streaming a video message from Morning Musume.

Why Are Teen Sex


Why Are Teen Sex Comedies Only Acceptable When They're Live Action?by Justin Sevakis, Aug 20th 2018





Recently an anime company was on facebook promoting an upcoming release of a fanservice heavy show set at a Highschool. The comment section got pretty toxic pretty quickly with a lot of people leaving comments along the lines of "If you watch this show or buy it you're a sick pedo that likes underage kids!" I grew up in the 80s and 90s when the teen sex comedy were a thing. Where movies like American Pie, Weird Science, Porky's, Meatballs, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High are considered classics and box office hits. These movies all had nudity and sexual situations of underage characters in highschool, but nobody seems to have a problem with them. Why is there a double standard when it comes to liking an anime with similar content and situations? First, can I state the obvious? You're looking at comments on Facebook ads. Are you really expecting to see anything but the most judgmental, shoutiest, dimmest commentary cropping up there? You're not getting reasoned, well- thought-out opinions there, just knee-jerk cynicism and crankiness. Anyway - for all its gains in accessibility and mainstream appeal over the years, Japanese media, and anime in general, still has something of a bad reputation for sexualizing underage characters in ways that many Westerners are uncomfortable with. Some of that is earned -- more lurid sections of otaku culture are rife with imagery that most people in Japan would find offensive, let alone the West. But it's true that people do tend to judge sexuality in anime and manga more harshly than they would live action films. A big part of that is the fading, but still present, underlying belief that cartoons are for kids. Also, you must remember that while many American teen films ostensibly take place in high school, almost nobody in those films actually is high school age. Most aren't even college age, they're in their mid- and late-20s. The actors playing the "jocks" and the love interests are clearly full-grown adults. This is done for myriad legal reasons on the part of production (non-minors can work longer, don't require parental oversight, etc.), but the end result is that our ideas about how sexually active high schoolers should appear in movies and TV shows are, perhaps, a little skewed towards being older looking than they actually are. Anime doesn't have that separation from fantasy: they are drawn exactly as they're intended to be. And in some cases they are indeed intended to be too young to really make it okay to be as sexy as they're depicted. But there's none of that "it's okay because this is clearly a grown 24-year-old woman playing the role" that acts as a get-out-of-jail-free card in a live action project. There's an indie film out now called Eighth Grade, which actually does feature real eighth graders portrayed startlingly realistically. In one scene, the main character is lusting after the bad boy in her class, and there's a shot of the boy getting out of the pool in slow motion while sexy music plays. It's a hilariously absurd scene in a cringingly awkward movie, because if you're an adult, the music absolutely does NOT match the visuals: every brain cell in most viewers' heads is screaming, "OH MY GOD, THAT IS A CHILD." That unspoken expectation that sexiness would be reserved for mature adult bodies was missing, and that made it uncomfortably funny. But that film was intended to be uncomfortably funny. Sexy anime is meant to be sexy on the face of it, but that more realistic depiction of sexiness in underage characters will always make some people uncomfortable on a visceral level. But beyond all that, anime is the non-mainstream option that people either aren't used to, or aren't AS used to, and it's the product of a different culture in a different country. It will always be judged by a slightly different set of rules, and looked at more judgmentally by people on a subconscious level. It's just how people are wired.

Arc the Lad R Smartphone Game



Arc the Lad R Smartphone Game Launchesposted on 2018-08-23 14:01 EDT by Jennifer Sherman





ForwardWorks' Arc the Lad R smartphone role-playing game launched for iOS and Android devices in Japan on Thursday. The sequel game is set 10 years after the Great Disaster that befell the world at the ending of Arc the Lad 2, and features both new and returning characters. The basic game is free to play, with in-game purchases available. The game features the return of key staff members from the first two Arc the Ladgames, including: Toshirō Tsuchida as the general game director and designer; Norihiko Yonesaka as scenario writer; artists Eiji Koyama, Ryūichi Kunisue, and Hiroshi Hayashi; and T-Square's Masahiro Ando as composer. The game retains the series' tactical turn-based battles, while also introducing unique new features. Side activities from previous games, such as missions from Forbidden Ruins, the Colosseum, and the Hunter's Guild, also return. ForwardWorks and Sony originally announced the game in December 2016.

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Film's Young All Might, Party Dress Designs Unveiled



My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Film's Young All Might, Party Dress Designs Unveiled


The official website for the My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: Futari no Hero) film revealed the character designs for the film for a young All Might, as well as the cast's party dress on Monday.




Funimation and TOHO will host a world premiere of the film with English subtitles at Anime Expo on July 5. The film will open in Japan on August 3. Funimation plans to release the film in the U.S. and Canada this fall. New characters for the film include David Shield (voiced by Katsuhisa Namase), Melissa Shield (voiced by Mirai Shida), and Wolfram (voiced by Rikiya Koyama). Melissa is a quirkless girl whom Deku meets on I-Island, and her father David was a friend of All Might in his younger days. David is a scientist who makes hero support items, and Melissa works hard to follow in his footsteps. Wolfram is a leader of a mysterious villain team that aims to overthrow the Hero Society. Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi is credited with the original work, character designs, and as chief supervisor. Returning staff members include director Kenji Nagasaki at BONES, scriptwriter Yousuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yuki Hayashi. TOHO is distributing the film. Masaki Suda is performing the film's theme song "Long Hope Philia." amazarashi's Hiromu Akitawrote and composed the piece. Source: My Hero Academia: Two Heroes film's official website, MoCa News

Aniplus Asia to Stream 1st Episode of 'Planet With' Anime Before Japanese Airing



Aniplus Asia to Stream 1st Episode of 'Planet With' Anime Before Japanese Airing



he official Twitter account for Aniplus-Asia announced last Friday that it will stream the first episode of of J.C. Staff and manga creator Satoshi Mizukami's original mecha anime Planet With in Singapore beginning on Tuesday, July 3 at 10:30 p.m., until Wednesday, July 4 at 9:59 p.m. While Aniplus-Asia's stream will debut before the Japanese television airing, Bandai Channeldebuted an advance stream of the first episode for the first 2,000 members in Japan on Sunday. Aniplus-Asia will premiere the anime on on July 8 at 11:00 p.m. GMT +8. The show will premiere in Japan on July 8 on Tokyo MX at 10:30 p.m. The series will also air on MBS and BS11. Youhei Suzuki (Aki no Kanade, Urara Meirochō, Sword Oratoria) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff, and Mizukami is credited for series composition for the anime, as well as 1,074 pages of storyboards and the original script draft. Kazunori Iwakura(Rune Soldier, Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Alice & Zoroku) is designing the characters for animation. Yoshitsune Izuna (Gad Guard, Diebuster) and Yasuyoshi Uetsu (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne, Triage X) are the mechanical designers. Tsuyoshi Isomoto is the prop designer. Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director, and Kōhei Tanaka is composing the music. Minami will perform the opening theme song "One Unit." Mai Fuchigami will performthe show's ending theme song. Mizukami is drawing a manga for the franchise, which launched with the first two chapters in the June issue of Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine on April 28. Source: Aniplus-Asia's official Twitter account, website

More Maquia Cinema Screenings in July




More Maquia Cinema Screenings in July




Anime Limited has announced on its Twitter feed that will be more screenings of P.A. Works, Showgate, and Mari Okada's Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarōfilm through July. Some of them will be on Wednesday July 4, including screenings at Ashley and Crawley (which experienced technical problems last week). Among the other venues screening the film in July will be Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, Southampton and Birmingham.
Venue details and tickets are available at the film's website. The film opened in Japan on February 24. Anime Limited describes the story: The people of Iolph have a lifespan of hundreds of years and maintain their teenage appearances for life, but when the peace of this town is shattered by those who want the secret to their longevity for themselves, a young girl named Maquia is forced to escape. Wandering the land alone, upon finding an orphaned baby she chooses to raise him, but as this boy grows up so the difference in their lifespans is thrown into ever-sharper relief. The film is the directorial debut of anime screenwriter Okada (The Anthem of the Heart, anohana). She also wrote the film's scripts at P.A. Works.

Sekai Project lanza Sekai Games Console Game Initiative





Sekai Project lanza Sekai Games Console Game Initiative

Sekai Project announced a new initiative on June 7 titled Sekai Games that will publish its titles to console platforms. The initiative will launch with five games.




The first game is a Switch release of illuCallab's A Magical High School Girl game, which launched on June 7. The second game is a Switch and PlayStation 4 release of Alice in Dissonance's fault game in November. The third game is a Switch and PC release of Vermillion Digital's M.A.S.S. Builder in summer 2019. The fourth game is an English release of Korean visual novel My Girlfriend is a Mermaid?! for the Switch and PC in February 2019. The fifth game is Samurai Cop: The Game, developed by Sekai Games for the Switch, PS4, and PC. illuCallab released its A Magical High School Girl game for PC and iOS in Japan in 2016, and Sekai Project released the game on PC via Steam in November 2016. Sekai Project released the fault - milestone one game for the PC in 2013, followed by fault - milestone two side: above in 2015, and the Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bellspinoff on February 20. Sekai Project will release the upcoming fault SILENCE THE PEDANT prequel and fault - milestone two side: below games this year and next year, respectively. A Kickstarter campaign in 2014 raised funds for Android and PlayStation Vita ports of fault milestone one. My Girlfriend is a Mermaid?! is developed by tales#, and debuted for the iOS and Android in 2014 with the title Bang-guseog-e In-eoagassi. The game debuted in Japanese for the same platforms in 2016 with the title Boku no Kanojo wa Ningyo Hime!?. Source: Sekai Games press release, Twitter account via Gematsu